Spider Preschool Theme

Today we talked about spiders!

A Teaching Mommy has a fun spider printable pack that includes activities like this life cycle puzzle.

This pack also has a fun game where you "swat the spider" when a letter is named.  Always a hit in our house. 

 This is our spider that we put together when talking about how many legs a spider has.

 Of course, you have to sing "Itsy, Bitsy Spider" and do the actions.  These are also fun visuals to use with the song.

 This is a fun, free printable with a little poem to go with it.

 This is a little spider matching game I made a while ago.

 I have a hard time getting my son to do arts and crafts sometimes so today I just encouraged him to draw a picture of a spider.  I think it turned out pretty cute.

We don't own "The Very Busy Spider" by Eric Carle, but I found this video for my son to watch where a child reads the book.

Posts about spiders in the past can be found in the links below.

2010

2011

2012

2013

Letter S/Spider Preschool Theme

Today we talked about the letter S for spiders!

Confessions of a Homeschooler has a great printable pack for the Letter S with Snow.  I plan to use that when it is snowy so instead we did a spider theme to go along with our letter S.

Check out Starfall's letter S activities.

2 Teaching Mommies has a great printable pack that is based around spiders and the letter S.

They also included a life cycle puzzle that we used to talk about the life of a spider.

A favorite activity from this pack is whacking the spider!  Each spider has a letter from the alphabet and you call out a letter for your child to find and let them whack the spider with a fly swatter.

We talked about how spiders have 8 legs and my son helped me give this spider some legs.

We sand "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" using these visuals.

Here is a little poem and printable about 4 little spiders.

"The Very Busy Spider" by Eric Carle is a favorite spider book at our house. Here is also a video you could watch if you do not own the book.

We played this matching game that I made a few years ago.

We made this hand print spider.

Since we are talking about the letter S we decided to make an S and give him 8 legs like a spider.  My son calls it his S Spider creature.

When my oldest turned six he wanted a spider theme birthday party.  You can check it out here. 

I have done a spider theme for several years with my older boys.  You can check out 2010, 2011, and 2012.

Spiders

A lot of the spider activities we did are ones that we have done before.  You can check out my posts about them here and here.

Here is a matching game that I made a few years ago.  It is always a hit.

 This is from a spider preschool pack I linked last year.  Lots of cute, fun stuff.

 This year my son created his own spider.  I outlined a circle for him and he did everything else.

 I think it turned out pretty cute.

Spider Themed Birthday Party

I know it seems like a weird time of the year to be posting about spiders, but my oldest son had a birthday just before Christmas and he wanted a spider theme and I thought I would share what I did.

He saw this Oreo Spider Cake while I was surfing the web one day and told me that he wanted that for his birthday cake.  So I ATTEMPTED to come close to making a cake that resembled it.

 I made cut out some spiders with my Cricut and strung them onto fishing line then hung them in the entrance to our kitchen.  My boys loved it.

 I made this banner with my Cricut as well and used some more spiders.

 Here is a party hat I made for my birthday boy.  I cut of the ring part of a plastic ring spider and used glue dots to stick them to the hat.

 I did the same thing to the other hats for our party guests.  I put purple spiders on the hats for the girls and we had a couple of babies so I made them smaller hats.

 I used black and white paper plates, cups, and napkins.  I didn't get a picture of it, but my son also wanted to play a pin the leg on the spider game so we did that.  It was a lot of fun.  Although, it did look rather strange next to all of our Christmas decorations.  I guess he should have been an October baby.

Spiders

We did several of the same spider activities as we did last year which you can find here.

 We also did several activities from a printable packet from 2 Teaching Mommies.

This game was probably his favorite.  Each card had a letter on it with the spider.  I called out a letter and he would swat the card with a fly swatter.